St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-02-17

Department Commander p. d. Blod-
gett delivers the Memorial day address
at Manchester.
Past Department. Commander George
It. Childs of st. Adams will deliver the
Memorial day address in ST. Johnsbury
this year.
w. w. Sprague was chosen COM
mander of Chamberlin post Saturday
evening in place of Col. Dennis May
resigned.
Caledonia lodge will give a sheet
and pillow case party and chicken pie
supper at Odd Fellows hall Thursday
evening, Feb. "a.
The second social assembly of Can
ton Crescent comes off Friday evening
at the Opera house. All Odd Fellows
are invited. Gallery open to the pub
ifc. Quite number from Lyndon
vile are expected.
Post Chamberlin is getting ont a
new roster which shows present
membership of l56. The members of
the relief corps numbering 90 are also
published as we'll as the sons of veter-
ans, the membership of the latter num-
bering 81.
Mrs. Mary Heald of st. JOhnsbury
was elected senior vice president at
the third annual convention of the VT.
department of the relief corps at Ben
nington last week, and Mrs. Alice
Moulton, also of this place, one of the
delegates to the national convention.
By the presidents report it seems that
at the beginning of their fiscal year
there were II corps while now there
are %. At the commencement of the
year there were 680 members, now the
membership is 1901, exclusive of the
last new corps which had 20 charter
members. The several corps had paid
for relief an aggregate of $447.2I.
These officers off Hector lodge, l. o.
G.. t. were publicly installed Monday
evening by Grand Chief Templar Geo.
Smalley of LyndonvilIe: w. L. Pearl,
C. T.; Susie Mckee, V. T.; Estella
Hyer, secretary w. w. Morse, asst.
sec. Mrs. j. L. c. Corliss, F. s.; Dan
iel Carpenter, treasurer; Irving How
ard, marshal /; Ida Penniman, d. M. !;
May Aldrich, guard; Fred Crosby,
sentinel Mrs. E. N. Randall, r. S. i;
Eva Sheldon, l.. F. George NJ. Will
liams, P. c. T.; w. A. Graham, chap
lain. The installation service, always
interesting and impressive, was never
more so than under the direction of
Grand Chief Templar Smalley, who, at
the close, delivered brief address re-
ferring to the work of templary in the
world and particularly in this state
where there are now enrolled 1000
members. This over there were read
ings by Mrs. E. N. Randall and violin
playing by Harry Powers with organ
accompaniment by Jennie Gale. The
ly large audience. There will be IL
mock trial two weeks from Monday
evening in the good templars' hall to
which the public will be welcome.
Department Commander Blodgett of
the state department G. A. R. has is
sued the following general order No. 3:
l. Department headquarters are es-
tablished at No. lib Eastern avenue,
Y. NJ. G. A. building, to which room
all comrades are most cordially well
coined at any time. III. The follow
ing additional appointments are an
nounced and the several comrades will
be obeyed and respected in their re-
spective departments: Department in
spector, Adrian t. Woodward, Roberts
post No. IA, Rutland.
Department mastering officer in
chief, D. j. Stafford, l. M. Warner post,
No. A, Morrisville.
Aids de camp: Comrade S. w. Cum
mings, st. Adams, post No. 90.
VIM. w. Henry, Burlington, No. 2.
H. w. Kingsley, Rutland, No. IL.
F. D. Butterfield, Derby Line, No. 81.
A. o. Gates, Morrisville, No. 4.
NJ ]. Sargent, So. Royalton, No. 93.
A. A. Smith, w. Randolph, No. 90.
L. C.. Leaven, w. Berkshire, No. 20.
Geo. w. Hooker, Brattleboro, No. g.,
Amasa S. Tracy, Middlebury, No. 60.
A. w. Brown, SwantOn, No. 70.
o. H. Austin, Barton Landing, No. 80.
d. K. Simonds, Manchester, No. "a.
G. B. Billiard, ST. Johnsbury, No. 1.
N. d. Puffer, Bennington, No. 43.
j. S. Thompson, Lyndon, No. 2.
E. G. Foster, Waterbury, No. u.
II. o. Seaver, Woodstock, No. 81.